Saturday, July 02, 2005

Mothers protest, legislator to push for nursing law

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. -- About 25 nursing mothers protested outside a Victoria's Secret lingerie store supporting the right of women to breast-feed in public, one of them holding a sign reading "The Secret's out ... Victoria supports Breasts, but not Breastfeeding."

Meanwhile, state Rep. Chip Limehouse plans to introduce a bill protecting the rights of mothers to nurse in public places, as do laws in about three dozen other states. Limehouse, R-Charleston, wrote a similar bill in the late 1990s, but it never passed.



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